Another scenery photo from Dad’s album. This one bears the caption “South of Yachats, July 1928”.

I believe that is Cape Perpetua in the background and the Devil’s Churn area in the foreground.

Present-day Cape Perpetua has a lot more trees on it, so I initially thought the feature in Dad’s photo must be something else. But it turns out the trees on Cape Perpetua are a relatively recent phenomenon. It was practically treeless as shown here into the 1930s.

The current road over Cape Perpetua (part of Highway 101) was constructed in the 1930s. Before that, the only road over the cape from the town of Yachats was a narrow wagon road built in 1914. I presume that is the road Dad had to travel to get to where this photo was taken.

More on the history of Cape Perpetua is here, thanks to the Oregon Historical Society.

Just getting to the coast was an ordeal in the late 1920s. In his diary Dad records a trip from the Goltra house to Newport that started at 5:15 AM on Monday, July 13, 1925. Due to a car breakdown and having to hike to Eddyville to get a part, they didn’t reach Newport until 6:30 PM (just in time to watch the sunset). They then turned around and headed back home. Along the way they had to repair a punctured tire by feel in the dark (no lanterns or flashlights). They finally arrived back to the Goltra house at 5:00 AM Tuesday—so basically 24 hours for a round-trip from Albany to Newport.